Sustaining device for aerial vessels.



No. 855,945. PATENTED JUNE 4, 1907. I. GRUBER.

SUSTAINING DEVICE FOR AERIAL VESSELS.

APPLIGATION FILED FEB. 23, 1907.

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WITNESSES INVENTOH 3 [7226466 l'dfl' A TTOBNEYS PATENTED JUNE 4, 1907.

I. GRUBER. SUSTAINING DEVICE FOR AERIAL VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23. 1907.

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W W R ATTORNEYS IGNACE GRUBER, or NEW YORK, N. Y

SUSTAININGDEVICE FOR AERIAL VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed IebruaryfZB, 1907. Serial No. 368,935.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, IGNACE GRUBER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx,

in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sustaining Devices for Aerial Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

1o The purpose of the invention is to provide a pneumatic device capable of o eration from within a basket or car of a bal oon to direct theballoon in one or the other direction or to prevent a too rapid descent of the balloon in the event of a leakage of gas or should the balloon be prone to drop from other causes.

Another purpose of the invention is to. provide a device of the character described, adaptable, to any type of balloon and which will be in complete control of the aeronaut.

The invention consists inthe novel construction and combination of the several parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference to be had to the accompanying. drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters'of reference indicatc corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a partly sectional side elevatipn of a balloon having the improvement applied;

Fig. 2 is a partly sectional front elevat'lon of a ballopn and a front elevation of the improved device applied to the same; and Eig. .3" isa vertical section through a portion 0 the 3 5' steering and sustaining device removed om the balloon. l "I:

, A represents the balloon of an'aerliabvessel, B the basket which is connected witl'i the' balloon or gas bag A by meansof the ordi-.

4o nary stays or ropes 10. One, of these ropes I is adapted to support a bearingmember'for a portion of the sustaining device 'at each side of the gas bag A, as is shown in F ig. 2,- and in the basket or car B a bellows (l is located or a .pncumatic of any approved type. The body portions 1) of the sustaining device arein the nature of plates adapted to fit close ,to the gas bag A, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the sustaining calk 10 for the body portion D of the said sustaining device is passe through eyes 11 formedat the back of the plates or other means may be employed "for connecting the sustainin or supporting rod to said plates D and at t e uppes ortion of each plate D, a segmental" ho j 12 is formed and each plate D is ovided at its lower-end upon its outer face with an eye 13, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

A wheel 14, peripherally grooved, is mounted upon each of the said plates D, and at the central portion of each wheel 14a strap 15 is secured, and the strap 1.5 holds in place a nozzle .16, the nozzles being normallyhorizontally disposed, as is shown in Fig. 1, or the said nozzles can be directed upward or downward according to the direction in which their supporting wheels are carried.

A pin 17 extends from the central portion of each housing 12 and a second pin 18' extends from the lower portion of the front of each plate D in vertical alinement with the upper pill 17 and tiles pins 17 and 18 limit the movement of the oz'zles 16. The cable 10 that supports the plates D extends entirely around the upper portion of the gas bag and is carried down to the basket where it Is secured in any suitable or approved manner, but each wheel 14 is turned through the medium of independent ropes or rods 19 passed over the peripherally grooved portions of the wheels and each rod 19 is carried downward to the basket B and is attached to the end portions of a pivot bar 20 o erated 1 by a suitable handle 21' or its. equiva cut, so that a nozzle at either side of the balloon can be independently or simultaneously operated, according to the means employed.

Each nozzle 16 is connected with a flexible.

the basket and is connected with the bellows.

C or the pil pe 24, t o the supply of air from the either of the nozzles 16;

pneumatic by means of a branch e valves '23 admitti igbof closing ellows .to I r In the operation of the device, if it is desired to turn to the right-hand, for example, the left-hand nozzle is broughtinto requisition, the supply of .air being cut off from the 1 right-hand when the air is supplied to the said left-hand nozzles bythe occupant in the car operating the bellows'C-with his foot, for

example, and if the bal on isto be directed 1n reverse direction .t e )ther nozzle is brought into action. Sh and there be an escape of gas or should front-any cause the balloon tend to fall too rapidliygs the ropes 19 are operated to turn the noz'z downward and both nozzles are then brought intoaction,

the force of the air from the nozzles or the outside current of air tending to sustain the balloon or at least to prevent it from falling quickly. Should a very rapid descent be required the nozzles 16 are 'made to face upward.

Having claim as new and "desire to secure by Letters 1. In a sustaining device for aerial vessels,

vices for turning the said nozzles and a pneuv a gas bag, abasket attached to, plates susmatic connected with said nozzles. I

3 In a sustaining device for aerial vessels,

pended from the gas bag and located at oppo-' site sides thereof, a wheel pivotallymounted on-each plate, a nozzle carried by each wheel, means for rotating the wheels from the hasket, and a pneumaticcarried by the basket adapted to supply air to the said nozzles.

thus described my'invention, I.

4. In a sustaining device for aerial vessels,

a gas bag, a car or basket suspended therefrom, rotatable members located at opposite sides of the gas bag, a nozzle carried by each member, stops limiting the movement of the nozzles, means for operating the said rotata-- ble objects, and a pneumatlc within the car connected with the said nozzles.

the combination-with the'ga's bag and con nected car of the vessel anda bellows located posite sides of the gas bag, means for sup- 40 porting the said wheels, a nozzle carried by within the said car, of wheels located at opeach of the said wheels, a pipe. connected with the said bellows, connectlons between? thesaid pipe and the said nozzles, and valves controlling the supply of air from the bel lows to each of the said nozzles, "as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my? two subscribing witnesses.

IGNACE. GRUBER; .Witncsses: i

. J. FRED ACKER, JNo.' M. .RHTER;

name to this specification in the presence, of

s5 5. In a sustaining device for aerial vessels, 

